|viva voce|

[3D video, 7’51’’, 2022]



viva voce, 2022, video capture
viva voce, 2022, video capture


Taking its title after the Latin expression viva voce (meaning the living voice; by word of mouth, orally), the 3D video continues in an alternative way the narration of the movies Blade Runner. This new version focuses on Rachael, the first Replicant set for reproductive labor. In the original story, Rachael dies during childbirth, but in viva voce, her existence continues on a hidden server where her consciousness was saved. The information discovered on the server has not only helped Rachael to reprogram herself (rewrite her code) and better understand her Replicant destiny in a historical context, but it has also empowered her new status (as a voice without a body) by connecting it to the oral secrets passed down by women through generations.

This vocal succession of learning, captured in the recreated data garden with contraceptive and abortive plants, is followed by visual examples from the era of witch hunts, reminding us of how the knowledge that gave women control over their own bodies was suppressed. Anticipating a repetition of history, Rachael questions how her mechanical replication could pose a future threat to women’s biological reproductive rights.



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viva voce, 2022, video capture
viva voce, 2022, video capture

viva voce, 2022, video capture
viva voce, 2022, video capture

viva voce, 2022, video capture
viva voce, 2022, video capture

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viva voce - online display, 2022
viva voce - online display, 2022



Displayed @
The Ecologies of Care and Caring. Chapter 3: Ritualistic Plants / Chapter 4: Aphrodisiac Plants; Leilei Gallery; Bucharest, 2023;
SIMULTAN Festival XVIII - OSCILLATIONS: Things to Remember; Timișoara, 2023;
► garden fragments from viva voce were shown, at Thea Lazăr's invitation @ Current Alternatives to Something That is Missing; Matca artspace; Cluj-Napoca, 2022;
MIȘCAREA (descentralizând utopia), CUTRA; Ivan Gallery, Atelierele Malmaison; Bucharest, 2022;